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Extra City

KINSHIP “Underground/Overseas”
5-6 October (6-12pm)

Location: Muhka_media — Waalsekaai 47 — BE-2000 Antwerpen

In autumn 2007, Extra City launches a film program organized at and with Muhka_media Antwerp which sets out to re-evaluate the heritage of underground and experimental film, and two solo exhibitions that deal with the way the history of social and aesthetic experiments is being written, questioning their status in collective memory and future imaginaries.

KINSHIP
Film program in collaboration with Mukha_Media
5-6 October (6pm - 12pm)

KINSHIP is a long term collaboration between Extra City Center for Contemporary Art and Muhka_media in Antwerp which aims at presenting a comprehensive overview and re-evaluation of experimental film history of the 60s and 70s and beyond. The program is designed in the form of a growing "map", connecting the various centers of experimental and underground production world wide, accompanied by writers, researchers and public debate, and it will take place approximately
every two month.

The opening program "Underground/Overseas" sets out to trace the connection between New York circles such as Jack Smith and Andy Warhol to the "Zanzibar" group in Paris. "Underground /Overseas", compiled by Marc Siegel (Film Scholar, Berlin), presents rare and never seen material next to classics and cornerstone work of both art and film history, this first weekend introducing newly recovered Jack Smith films, next to some of the most remarkable works from the "Zanzibar" scene. Live guests of "Underground / Overseas" include Jerry Tartaglia (Filmmaker/Archivist, Fleetwood, Pennsylvania), Jackie Raynal (Filmmaker, Paris), Patrick Deval (Filmmaker, Paris), Stefanie Schulte Strathaus (Director of Friends of the German Cinemathèque, Berlin).

"Underground/Overseas" part II will take place December 7/8.

The opening lecture for the KINSHIP program is delivered by Branden W. Joseph from Columbia University New York on October 5 at 6pm. A panel discussing the current re-evaluation of experimental film history will take place the following day, October 6, at 6 pm, with the guests indicated above.

Please downoad the detailed program at http://www.extracity.org

KINSHIP is conceived by Anselm Franke (Extra City) and Edwin Carels (Muhka_media). A collaboration with the Friends of the German Cinemathèque Berlin.

Further dates: December 7/8: "Undergound/Overseas" part II.

Also at Extra City in October:
SOLO EXHIBITIONS BY JOACHIM KOESTER AND LUKE FOWLER
Opening October 11th, 7 pm

Luke Fowler pesents "The Nine Monads Of David Bell" (2007). Living and working in Glasgow, Luke has become known for his elaborate and poetic portrayals of past radical social experiments. Luke’s installation departs from his film "What you see is where you’re at" (2001), a portrait of the Kingsley Hall community (Philadelphia Association 1965-1969). This beacon of the anti-psychiatry movement provided a counter model to the mental institution, breaking down notions of treatment and the doctor/patient hierarchy. Focusing on one of Kingsley Hall’s residents, "The Nine Monads Of David Bell" furthers an investigation into his world. David Bell was a mathematician who moved to London in the 1950 s to work as a computer programmer. After an unexplained accident at a nuclear firm Bell became a patient of Dr. Leon Redler, a young American Psychiatrist working at Kingsley Hall. Despite their clinical characterization as pure "schizophrenese", D
avid Bell’s words were valued and recorded at Kingsley Hall. Recordings now woven through the sound work presented alongside the Fowler’s original film, "What you see is where you’re at" (2001) to make up "The Nine Monads Of David Bell".

Joachim Koester’s solo exhibition entitled "Numerous Incidents of Indefinite Outcome" brings together four recent and a new work. Joachim Koester uses strategies of montage, archiving and storytelling to illuminate historical events. In the past few years he traces the invisible and forgotten histories of transgression, exploring the legacies and remains such as of occult movements and psychedelic experiments. The exhibition departs from the better known film "Morning of the Magicians" (2005), in which Joachim visits a house in Cefalù, Sicily, that once served as a communal home for the infamous occultist Aleister Crowley and his group of devotees, called the "The Abbey of Thelema". "One + One + One" (2006) takes the artist’s engagement with the "The Abbey of Thelema" further. By placing a girl playing the drumbeats of "Sympathy for the Devil" in the house’s garden, he weaves together the his
tories of counter-culture, the aesthetics of transgression, subjective transformation and political revolt. The title of the work is also a reference to Jean-Luc Godard’s ‘68 film "One +One", which was titled "Sympathy for the Devil" in the United States. In a third work, Joachim Koester uses the drawings Belgian poet and painter Henri Michaux made under the influence of Mescaline. "My Frontier is an Endless wall of Points" is a 16mm film in which these drawings are being animated, as if coming back to life again, thus addressing the question of translatability of something physical and material (that of the psychoactive substance, but as well the materiality of the drawing) into mental images, ideas, and states of mind. Finally, "Numerous Incidents of Indefinite Outcome" is also the title of a newly produced multi-channel monitor work, which draws on H.P. Lovecraft. A cult figure in the canon of the horror genre, Lovecraft published his unrealized stories and ideas in a book called "The Notes and Commonplace Book". By processing the notes of the book through a computer program, a series of new outlines are generated and displayed on the monitors. Joachim Koester turns Lovecraft’s ideas into a mental theatre, confronting the tradition of horror narratives introduced by Edgar Allan Poe with the experimental text tradition and the cut-up method of William Bouroughs and Brian Gysin.

The exhibition of Luke Fowler is made possible through the generous support from The Modern Institute, Glasgow. Joachim Koester’s exhibition is supported by Jan Mot Gallery, Brussels.

Extra City benefits the support of: Ministerie van Cultuur, Jeugd, Sport en Brussel, Stad Antwerpen, Klara, Bureau Bouwtechniek, OCMW, Triodos Bank, Forest & Bold

Extra City centrum voor hedendaagse kunst
Klamperstraat 40 (entrance Tulpstraat)
BE-2060 Antwerpen
+32 (0)484 42 10 70
info@extracity.org
http://www.extracity.org

For more information go to: http://www.extracity.org

Ink Miami

Ink Miami 2007
December 5 - 9, 2007

Opening Brunch Celebration
December 5, 2007: 10 a.m. - Noon

Hours:
Wednesday, December 5th: 12 p.m. - 6 p.m.
Thursday, December 6th: 10 a.m. - 7 p.m.
Friday, December 7th: 10 a.m. - 7 p.m.
Saturday, December 8th: 10 a.m. - 7 p.m.
Sunday, December 9th: 10 a.m. - 3 p.m.

Location:
Suites of Dorchester
1850 Collins Avenue
Miami Beach, Florida 33139
http://www.suitesofdorchester.com
entrances on 19th Street, Collins Avenue,
and James Street

IFPDA Telephone: 212-674-6095
sponsored by the IFPDA

http://www.inkartfair.com

Following its successful debut in 2006, the 2007 edition of INK Miami Art Fair will open a day earlier on Wednesday, December 9th with a Breakfast Preview starting at 10:00 a.m. just steps away from the Art Basel Miami Beach Fair. The Fair returns to the Suites of Dorchester, where last year’s Fair drew raves from attendees for its presentation of exhibitors in spacious suites surrounding a lush central courtyard. The Suites of Dorchester is on the main thoroughfare to the Miami Beach Convention Center.

Unique among the sprawling group of fairs in South Beach, INK Miami 2007 is a focused event showcasing contemporary works on paper by internationally renowned artists during Art Basel Miami Beach. Twenty exhibitors were selected for this year’s Fair by the IFPDA’s Contemporary Committee and reflect the vitality of the contemporary membership of the IFPDA. These leading dealers and print publishers will offer collectors an opportunity to acquire 20th century masterworks as well as just-published editions by leading contemporary artists.

INK MIAMI 2007 EXHIBITORS:

Arion Press, San Francisco, CA
Crown Point Press, San Francisco, CA
Dolan / Maxwell, Philadelphia, PA
Dranoff Fine Art, New York, NY
Durham Press, Durham, PA
Graphicstudio/University of South Florida, Tampa, FL
Jim Kempner Fine Art, New York, NY
Marlborough Graphics, New York, NY
Mixografia ®, Los Angeles, CA
Paulson Press, Berkeley, CA
Riverhouse / van Straaten, Steamboat Springs, CO
Mary Ryan Gallery, New York
Shark’s Ink., Lyons, CO
William Shearburn Gallery, St. Louis, MO
Susan Sheehan Gallery, New York, NY
Sims Reed, London
Solo Impression, Inc., New York, NY
Tandem Press, Madison, WI
Diane Villani Editions, New York, NY
Charles M. Young Fine Prints & Drawings, Portland, CT

The IFPDA is a non-profit organization dedicated to ensuring the highest ethical standards and quality among fine print dealers, and to promoting greater appreciation of prints among art collectors and the general public.

For press information and images please contact:

Michele Senecal, Executive Director
International Fine Print Dealers Association
250 West 26th St., Suite 405
New York, NY 10001-6737
info@ifpda.org
http://www.ipfda.org
Tel: 212.674.6095

For more information go to: http://www.inkartfair.com

ArtSway

NATHANIEL MELLORS
THE TIME SURGEON
6 October - 25 November 2007

ArtSway
Station Road
Sway, nr Lymington,
Hampshire, SO41 6BA
t: +44 (0)1590 682260
mail@artsway.org.uk
Tuesday - Sunday 11am - 5pm

http://www.artsway.org.uk

Preview and Reception for the Artist: Saturday 6 October 2007, 2pm - 5pm
Free coach from Tate Britain to Sway on 6 October, Leaving at 11.30am, returning at 7pm:
Booking essential.

ArtSway is delighted to announce The Time Surgeon, a new film-based installation from Nathaniel Mellors, co-commissioned with the Biennale d’Art Contemporain de Lyon 2007. This new work was created while Nathaniel Mellors was artist in residence at ArtSway this year, and much of the film was shot on location in the New Forest. Nathaniel Mellors’ ArtSway residency is a partnership with the Arts Institute at Bournemouth.

The Time Surgeon is an absurdist film, partly inspired by Samuel Beckett’s Krapp’s Last Tape (1958) and Chris Marker’s La Jetée (1962), in which the central character’s verbal descriptions of torture, in combination with the fast-forward and rewind buttons on his Sony portable, are enough to send his tape-bound ‘Victim’ shuttling forwards and backwards in time. ‘Victim’ is steered through significant historical events, visiting 1960s New York and Renaissance France as well as Jesus’ crucifixion at Golgotha — arriving inside the body of Christ by mistake, causing the abortion of Christ’s conjoined ’sensible twin’, before finally meeting GOD – who requests the end of the art-work.

Nathaniel Mellors is known for his ad-hoc sculpture, psychedelic theatre and satirical films which target the question of who controls language.

Nathaniel Mellors (born Doncaster, 1974) graduated from the Royal College of Art in 2001 and lives and works in London and Amsterdam. Selected solo exhibitions include Hateball at Alison Jacques Gallery (2005) and Profondo Viola, Matt’s Gallery (2004). He is currently resident at the Rijksakademie, Amsterdam and will exhibit Hateball in The Present Order is the Disorder of the Future at De Hallen Haarlem this Autumn. Nathaniel Mellors was selected for a residency at ArtSway in partnership with the Arts Institute at Bournemouth’s text + work programme. text + work is publishing a full-colour publication to accompany the exhibition, entitled ‘B.OK’, and including new critical texts by Jennifer Higgie, David Evans and Martin Herbert. Nathaniel Mellors is represented by Alison Jacques Gallery, London and Matt’s Gallery, London.

For press images, interviews, and further information, please contact Laura McLean-Ferris on 01590 682260 x 16 or email laura@artsway.org.uk

A FREE COACH FROM LONDON WILL BE AVAILABLE FOR THE PREVIEW ON 6 OCTOBER, LEAVING FROM TATE BRITAIN AT 11.30AM AND RETURNING FOR 7PM TRAFFIC PERMITTING. PLEASE CONTACT ARTSWAY TO BOOK A PLACE AS SPACE IS LIMITED. A LIGHT BUFFET WILL BE SERVED ON ARRIVAL AT ARTSWAY.

Nathaniel Mellors will be in discussion with writer and critic Sally O’Reilly at ArtSway on 10 November 2007. To book a place, please contact ArtSway on +44(0)1590 682260

The Time Surgeon was developed by Nathaniel Mellors during an ArtSway Production Residency and co-commissioned by ArtSway and Biennale de Lyon 2007. The Time Surgeon will also be exhibited in Lyon 19 September - 6 January 2008. See http://www.biennale-de-lyon.org for more information.

ArtSway and The Arts Institute at Bournemouth offered a two-month production residency with a following exhibition at ArtSway and an accompanying publication/critical text as part of the The Arts Institute at Bournemouth text + work initiative.

ArtSway is a unique place in the UK’s New Forest to see, discuss, make and engage with significant contemporary visual art from the local to the international. A purpose-built and architecturally important gallery space hosts a changing programme of exhibitions and wide ranging creative opportunities for all.

Admission is FREE.

The Arts Institute at Bournemouth is a leading specialist higher educational institution, offering undergraduate and postgraduate degrees across a range of contemporary arts, design and media subjects. Its programme of text + work promotes dialogue between innovative contemporary art and design practice and its theoretical context.

The ArtSway Trust Limited A Company Limited by Guarantee Registered in England No 3894397 A Registered Charity No 1080107

For more information go to: http://www.artsway.org.uk

Rodman Hall Arts Centre

Objects of Affection
featuring work by
Susan Bozic, Meesoo Lee, Jillian McDonald, Maria Legault, Warren Quigley & Tanya Read

October 5 - December 2, 2007

Curated by Gordon Hatt

Rodman Hall Arts Centre,
Brock University
109 St. Paul Crescent
St. Catharines,
Ontario, Canada L2S 1M3

Panel discussion with the artists Friday, October 5 at 2 p.m.

Opening reception Friday, October 5 at 7 p.m.

Opening performance by Maria Legault Friday, October, 5 at 8 p.m.

Music by the band Ethel and the Mermen at 9 p.m.

Objects of Affection is an exhibition about misplaced love. Desire — that intoxicating stirring of affection for someone or something — is a constant throughout our lives. The objects of our affection, however, are constantly changing. What do we desire? Why do we desire, and how do we express this desire?

Desire is of course shaped and channeled by religion, tradition, education, class and culture. We are educated in wants and needs — taught what to hope and wish for and what to disdain. But lurking beneath our educated restraint are subconscious desires — desires motivated by needs other than those determined by culture and society. Our needs may be a striving for personal completion and fulfilment, something which may be little more than a projection of our own narcissism. Never quite satisfied, we are driven to confront a gnawing existential unhappiness, constantly desiring, in an endless search to somehow fill the feeling of an emptiness within.

The six artists in Objects of Affection address this existential longing through their work. Popular culture — that great vehicle for the creation and imaging of desire in the service of the consumer society — is referenced by all of the artists in the exhibition. Romance novels and advertising, Hollywood movies and fan magazines, soap operas and comics are the direct or indirect subjects of these artists. The artefacts of popular culture reflect back to us both our ideal and our comically pathetic selves. We attempt to measure ourselves against these representations but they never seem to fit. Engaging popular culture by appropriating its means — in effect talking back to it — these six artists create spaces for the desiring subject in a culture of publicity and celebrity. They address the inadequacies of popular culture’s representations of who we are and what we feel, and confront the feelings of emptiness that these images of popular culture do much to create.

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Vancouver artist Susan Bozic has created the Dating Portfolio, a series of staged photographs depicting a young woman’s romantic fantasies. Her fantasy date in these photographs is a store window mannequin. Together they enact images that recall romance novels, billboard advertising, television commercials and Hollywood films portraying the blissful co-existence of happy couples. Her matinée idol mannequin is a pliant clothes hanger, providing an amenable but insensate partner in the illustration of the young woman’s impossible desire.

Meesoo Lee, also of Vancouver, has produced a series of videos he calls Pop Songs. Working within the genre of music video, Lee samples television and video, selectively editing and adding soundtracks. His resulting modifications tease out the structural relationships of the media and its content, focussing our voyeuristic gaze on televisual images of figure skaters, rodeo riders, actors and the other shooting stars of our media environment. Lee’s Pop Songs reveal video and film as a virtual peep show that feeds false intimacy to an atomized and insatiably desiring public.

New York-based artist Jillian McDonald’s video Me and Billy-Bob is a projection and examination of the obsessional fantasy that fuels our now pervasive celebrity culture. Me and Billy-Bob is a collage of clips from movies starring the actor Billy-Bob Thornton. McDonald digitally inserts herself into existing film clips as the recurring object of actor Billy-Bob Thornton’s affection. They exchange looks of longing, pleasure and pain, yet the desire remains unconsummated, looping infinitely. McDonald’s intervention is part of a larger body of work that includes other videos, a web site, a photo series, music, and a participatory tattoo project for fans.

Toronto-based performance artist Maria Legault’s work is based around a life-sized puppet she calls “Plus One.” As the name implies, "Plus One" is Legault’s imaginary partner — a foil and a projection of her desires and anxieties in being part of a couple. Their marriage and its disintegration is the subject of a performance where intimacy and communication are doomed from the start.

Ridgeway, Ontario artist Warren Quigley creates an installation environment through the arrangement of aspects of a motel room. His Love Motel makes reference to bordellos from New Orleans from the turn of the previous century, to the Love Motels of Asia in the 60s and 70s, to the North American roadside motels spawned by car culture. While other artists attempt to describe the elusiveness of desire through surrogate love objects, Quigley describes desire as a vacant shell of anticipation and regret.

Toronto-based artist Tanya Read created Mr. Nobody in 1998, a black-and-white anthropomorphic animal resembling a cross between a panda bear and a cat. Mr. Nobody is not the ideal integrated self, but the self as fragmented, aimless, confused and desiring. Like his popular television counterpart Homer Simpson, Mr. Nobody is a bottomless well of omnidirectional need and comic pathos.

For more information go to: http://www.brocku.ca/rodmanhall

The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston

Ornament as Art: Avant-Garde Jewelry from the Helen Williams Drutt Collection Opens at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, September 30, Inaugurating
National Tour

MFAH-Organized Show Challenges Viewers to Look Beyond
Jewelry’s Traditions

Some 300 objects on view, from the 1960s through the present, all from the acclaimed collection
at the MFAH

Ornament as Art: Avant-Garde Jewelry from the Helen Williams Drutt Collection, on view at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston places contemporary jewelry within the larger framework of twentieth and twenty-first century art. Tracing the history of the artists and the aesthetic influences and technical innovation of the jewelry, the exhibition showcases a broad array of national and international works from the 1960s through today. In addition to approximately 275 pieces of jewelry, Ornament as Art also contains drawings, watercolors, sketchbooks and sculptural constructions by the artists. The exhibition draws entirely from the MFAH’s celebrated Helen Williams Drutt Collection of contemporary jewelry, the most significant contemporary jewelry collection in the United States. Acquired by the museum in 2002, the collection, assembled by legendary scholar and educator Helen Drutt, consists of 720 pieces of jewelry and 84 works on paper. Over 175 artists from 18 different countries
are represented with the largest concentration working in the United States, Western Europe, Japan, and Australia. Ornament as Art is on view from September 30, 2007 through January 21, 2008. The exhibition will then begin a national tour, appearing next at the Smithsonian American Art Museum’s Renwick Gallery in Washington D.C.

Ornament as Art is organized by Cindi Strauss, the MFAH’s curator of modern and contemporary decorative arts and design, and is drawn from a collection that was assembled over a forty-year period in which the history and developments in the field were observed and documented by the collector. The exhibition is structured as a progression, tracing the development of artist-made jewelry chronologically, while touching on major innovations in techniques, material, scale, and concept. Focused sections examine narrative impulses, the relationship between jewelry and major artistic movements of the 20th century, and the idea of performance jewelry. Among the artists represented are Gijs Bakker, the Netherlands; Liv Blåvarp, Norway; Claus Bury, Germany; Peter Chang, the United Kingdom; Georg Dobler, Germany; Lisa Gralnick, the United States; Otto Künzli, Switzerland; Stanley Lechtzin, the United States; Nel Linssen, the Netherlands; Bruno Martinazzi, Italy; Bruce Metcalf,
the United States; Albert Paley, the United States; Wendy Ramshaw, the United Kingdom; Gerd Rothmann, Germany; Bernhard Schobinger, Switzerland; Olaf Skoogfors, the United States; Emmy van Leersum, the Netherlands; Tone Vigeland, Norway; David Watkins, the United Kingdom; Margaret West, Australia; and Hiramatsu Yasuki, Japan; among others.

Ornament as Art also provides the opportunity to study three themes in depth: narrative jewelry, the influence of twentieth-century art movements, and performance jewelry. Whether depicting personal stories, myths, politics, history, or popular culture, narrative works engage the viewer by transporting them to a particular time or place and by encouraging imagination, interaction, and fantasy. Many artists in the collection also use tenets of major art movements such as the Bauhaus, assemblage and collage, constructivism, Minimalism and Conceptualism in their jewelry. Finally, the interaction between jewelry and the body and the active dialogue that resulted from it informed a genre of jewelry that questions the fundamental traditions of what jewelry should be.

Ornament as Art is organized by the MFAH. Generous funding is provided by The National Endowment for the Arts; The Rotasa Foundation; Fulbright and Jaworski, L.L.P.; The Center for Craft, Creativity, and Design; The Mondriaan Foundation;
Ms. Anne L. Kinder, and The Consulate General of the Netherlands.

Exhibition Tour Schedule
The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston: September 30, 2007-January 21, 2008
Renwick Gallery of the Smithsonian American Art Museum: March 14-July 6, 2008
Mint Museum of Craft + Design, Charlotte, North Carolina: August 16, 2008-January 4, 2009

Tacoma Museum of Art, Tacoma, Washington: June 27-September 13, 2009

For information, call 713-639-7300 or visit http://www.mfah.org

The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
1001 Bissonnet
Houston, TX 77005
http://www.mfah.org

Image Credit:
Georg Dobler, Brooch, 1985, steel and acrylic lacquer, the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; Helen Williams Drutt Collection, museum purchase with funds provided by the Design Council, 2004, 2002.3722. Copyright: Georg Dobler

For more information go to: http://www.mfah.org

PERFORMA07

PERFORMA07
SECOND BIENNIAL OF NEW VISUAL ART PERFORMANCE IN NEW YORK CITY

OCTOBER 27 THROUGH
NOVEMBER 20, 2007

http://www.performa-arts.org

PERFORMA07, the second biennial of new visual art performance, opens on October 27 in New York City, launching a four-week program of performances, exhibitions, screenings, symposia, and live events including ten major PERFORMA Commissions by Carlos Amorales, Sanford Biggers, Nathalie Djurberg, Japanther, Isaac Julien, Daria Martin, Kelly Nipper, Adam Pendleton, Yvonne Rainer, and Francesco Vezzoli. PERFORMA07 features the work of over ninety international artists at more than fifty leading cultural institutions and venues throughout the city, with the participation of more than thirty curators, and is organized under the artistic direction of its founder, RoseLee Goldberg.

PERFORMA07 will open with a special premiere of a new PERFORMA Commission by celebrated Italian artist Francesco Vezzoli in the rotunda of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum. In his first ever live performance, Vezzoli will present a restaging of Cosi’ e (se vi pare,) or Right You Are (If You Think You Are), the renowned play by Luigi Pirandello, which implicates the audience in its examination of celebrity while also pointing to the relativity of truth, the necessity of illusion, and the instability of the human persona. The evening will begin with a Gala Dinner, to benefit PERFORMA, hosted by Jeanne Greenberg Rohatyn. Tickets for the dinner can be reserved by calling (212) 366-5700.

ARTISTS:
Vito Acconci / David Adamo / Carlos Amorales / Ei Arakawa & Amy Sillman / Are You Meaning Company / Fia Backström / Ronnie Bass / Jérôme Bel / Tamy Ben-Tor / Sanford Biggers / Ulla von Brandenburg / Pablo Bronstein / Trisha Brown / Tania Bruguera / James Lee Byars / Kabir Carter / Dimitri Chamblas / Boris Charmatz / Cheapcream / Zoila Imaculada de la Concepción / Douglas Coupland / Tom Cole & Lovett/Codagnone / Tony Conrad / Marie Cool & Fabio Balducci / Nick Curris (aka Momus) / Philippe Decouflé / Nathalie Djurberg / Pete Drungel / Nicolás Dumit Estévez / Emilio Fantin / Ryan Gander / Gang Zhao / Rainer Ganahl / Grand Union / Nicolas Guagnini / Deborah Hay / He Yunchang / Karl Holmqvist / Hans Isaksson / International Festival / Christian Jankowski / Joan Jonas / Japanther / Isaac Julien & Russell Maliphant / Allan Kaprow / Alison Knowles / Elke Krystufek / Tove Leffler / Shaun El C. Leonardo / Long March Collect
ive / Daria Martin / Eva and Franco Mattes (aka 0100101110101101.org) / Dave McKenzie / Meredith Monk / Robert Morris & Stan VanDerBeek / My Barbarian / Bruce Nauman / Maurizio Nannucci / Luigi Negro / Kelly Nipper / Giancarlo Norese / Michael Northam / Darren O’Donnell / Yoko Ono / Serkan Özkaya / Adam Pendleton / Mai-Thu Perret / Cesare Pietroiusti / Michael Portnoy / Emilio Prini / Qiu Zhije / Yvonne Rainer / Robert Rauschenberg / Aïda Ruilova / Jelena Rundqvist / Carolee Schneeman / Second Front / Dexter Sinister / Markus Schinwald & Oleg Soulimenko / Snöfrid / Barbara Sukowa & The X-Patsys / Elaine Summers / Emily Sundblad / Eva Svuje / Min Tanaka / TM Sisters / Tomas Vanek / Francesco Vezzoli / Emily Sundblad / Marianne Vitale & Agathe Snow / Tris Vonna-Michell / Jennifer Walshe / Lawrence Weiner / Michael Williams & Melissa Brown / Ian Wilson / Xu Zhen / + MORE

PERFORMA07 CONSORTIUM:
Anthology Film Archives / Artists Space / Art in General / Art Radio WPS1.org / Aperture Foundation / Baryshnikov Arts Center / The Bronx Museum of the Arts / Brooklyn Academy of Music / China Institute / Creative Time / Dance New Amsterdam / Dance Theater Workshop / DISPATCH / The Drawing Center / Electronic Arts Intermix / Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts / The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum / Japan Society / The Jewish Museum / The Judson Memorial Church / The Kitchen / Lower Manhattan Cultural Council / The Museum of Arts and Design / Museum of Chinese in the Americas / New York University / Participant, Inc. / Performance Space 122 / P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center / SculptureCenter / The Studio Museum in Harlem / Storefront for Art and Architecture / Swiss Institute–Contemporary Art / WFMU 91.1FM-NYC and http://www.wfmu.org / White Box / White Columns / The Whitney Museum of American Art / WPS1 Art Radio / + MORE

ADDITIONAL VENUES:
590 Madison (The Atrium) / The Box / Columbia University / Dance New Amsterdam / Dexter Sinister / Freemans / The Highline Ballroom / The Hudson Theatre at the Millennium Broadway Hotel / Passerby / The New School / Second Life / Stephan Weiss Studio / World Financial Center / The Zipper Theater / + MORE

PARTICIPATING GALLERIES:
Canada / Chambers Fine Art / Deitch Projects / Fruit and Flower Deli / Greene Naftali Gallery / James Cohan Gallery / Metro Pictures / Salon 94 / Smith-Stewart / + MORE

PERFORMA07 BIENNIAL FUNDING & SPONSORS:
PERFORMA Commissions and PERFORMA07 programs are supported by grants from the Toby Devan Lewis Philanthropic Fund, the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, the David & Elaine Potter Charitable Trust, the Rockefeller Brothers Fund, The Greenwall Foundation, the Peter Norton Family Foundation, the New York State Council on the Arts, the Fundación/Colección Jumex, The Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, the Savannah College of Art and Design, Outset Contemporary Art Fund, the Cultural Services of the French Embassy, IASPIS, Altria Group, Inc., New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, Foundation for Contemporary Arts, Ken and Judith Joy Family Foundation, Dena Foundation, Bloomberg L.P., the Moon and Stars Project, Goethe-Institut New York, Austrian Cultural Forum, the PERFORMA Producer’s Circle, the PERFORMA Visionaries, and many generous individuals. Sponsors include: Time Out New York, Grolsch, Millennium Hotels, Christiania, and Fazioli.

A complete program of events and full ticketing information is available at http://www.performa-arts.org

For more information go to: http://www.performa-arts.org

Tate Modern

Arts on Film Archive at Tate Modern
Tuesday 2 October - Tuesday 16 October 2007

Tate Modern
Starr Auditorium
Bankside
London SE1 9TG

http://www.tate.org.uk

This programme of screenings showcases the University of Westminster’s newly established online Arts on Film Archive http://www.artsonfilm.org.uk Supported by the AHRC and based at CREAM (Centre for Research and Education in Arts and Media, University of Westminster), the archive currently contains more than 465 documentary films drawn from Arts Council England’s Film Collection. The archive is a unique record of British and international post-war art, and of documentary filmmaking in the UK. Many titles in the archive contain rare material about individual artists; others offer definitive coverage of their subject. The screenings are followed by on-stage conversations with artists and filmmakers, led by John Wyver, author of the newly released publication Vision On: Film, Television and the Arts in Britain (Wallflower Press).

With support from CREAM at University of Westminster, and the Arts and Humanities
Research Council.

Tuesday 2 October 2007, 18.30

Richard Hamilton
James Scott, UK 1969, 25 mins
Made in collaboration with the artist Richard Hamilton, this documentary remains vivid and surprising nearly forty years on. Fragments of Hamilton’s works are integrated with newsreel images, movie trailers and other footage from the period. The artist offers an audio-only commentary, but this too is layered and disrupted. From this disorienting and often funny patchwork emerges a perceptual analysis that avoids conventional explanation, yet reveals key ideas that shaped Hamilton’s art.

The Great Ice Cream Robbery
James Scott, UK 1971, 35 mins
This rarely seen film, projected on two screens, was made in the summer of 1970 while Claes Oldenburg was in London setting up his retrospective at the Tate Gallery. It was the last film in a quartet of collaborations with artists that included David Hockney, RB Kitaj, and Richard Hamilton.

Wednesday 3 October 2007, 18.30

Bill Brandt: Shadows from Light
Steve Dwoskin, UK 1983, 59 mins
‘A cinematographic journey through the photographic atmospheres of Bill Brandt’ by renowned experimental filmmaker Steve Dwoskin. Many of the photographer’s most famous images are presented, along with Brandt himself, who died in December 1983. Much of the film is a succession of glistening, high contrast monochrome frames, echoing Brandt’s style and blurring the boundary between the photographs and the film’s photography. There are quotations too, about photography, from Man Ray, Susan Sontag, Edward Steichen, plus a child reading fragments from Alice Through the Looking Glass. Shadows from Light, like Lewis Carroll, is mysterious and haunting, innocent yet rewardingly complex.

Tuesday 16 October 2007, 18.30

Music and Performance Films
Throughout the 1990s, the Arts Council collaborated with BBC Television on a number of successful series of imaginative short films bringing together creative filmmakers with dancers, choreographers, musicians and performance artists. Included in the programme are Blight made by John Smith with composer Jocelyne Pook, Jayne Parker’s The World Turned Upside Down, David Hinton and Rosemary Lee’s work of documentary choreography, Snow, as well as John Tchalenko’s delightful tribute to step-dancer Sam Sherry.

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The October issue of frieze looks at the slapstick method in visual art. Brian Dillon traces the history of slapstick comedy, from Laurel and Hardy to Itchy and Scratchy, and from Bruce Nauman to
Phil Collins.

Jörg Heiser looks back over the career of Sigmar Polke, whose iconoclastic and innovative work is frequently comical, while Christy Lange explores the darkly humourous work of Nedko Solakov. Jennifer Allen examines the installations and sculptures of Rachel Harrison, and Jan Verwoert enjoys Cezary Bodzianowski’s acts of everyday absurdity.

In the Front section Robert Storr asks whether technocracy is replacing vision in top museum jobs, George Pendle observes pro wrestling grappling with reality, and Nancy Spector passes the time in an exhibition about duration.

Michael Bracewell discusses the changing face of London’s East End, and Emily King considers the implications of record prices fetched by design at auction. In Life in Film, Rosemarie Trockel reflects on the movies that have influenced her.

The Back section includes reviews from Austria, China, France, Germany, Israel, Italy, the Netherlands, Sweden, Switzerland, the UK and the USA, including ‘Eden’s Edge’, ‘Imagine Action’, Andreas Slominski, Eric van Lieshout, ‘New Economy’, Amar Kanwar, Eva Rothschild and David Maljikovic.

After six years we are sad to announce that Design editor Emily King is leaving frieze to concentrate on curatorial and writing projects. We are, however, very pleased to welcome New York-based critic Eugenia Bell as our new Design Editor.

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Museum für Moderne Kunst

TARYN SIMON
An American Index of the
Hidden and Unfamiliar
29.9.2007 - 20.1.2008

Museum für Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt/Main
Domstrasse 10, 60311
Frankfurt/Main, Germany
Tues.-Sun. 10 am to 5 pm
Wed. 10 am to 8 pm, Mon. closed

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"I am always immensely grateful to people who do impossible things on my behalf and bring back the picture. It means I don’t have to do it, but at least I know what it looks like. So one’s first feeling on looking at many of these extraordinary images is gratitude (followed quickly by a momentary pang of envy: the sedentary writer’s salute to the woman of action)."

Deste Foundation for Contemporary Art

Loukia Alavanou wins The DESTE Prize 2007

Deste Foundation for Contemporary Art
11, Filellinon & Em.Pappa street
N.Ionia 142 34, Athens Greece
tel: +30 210 27 58 490
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The DESTE Foundation for Contemporary Art is delighted to announce that the winner of DESTE Prize 2007 is Loukia Alavanou.

The winner was decided by this year’s Jury, consisting of Dakis Joannou-President, The Deste Foundation, Pawel Althamer-Artist, Laura Hoptman- Curator, New Museum of Contemporary Art, Hans Ulrich Obrist-Co-Director Exhibitions & Programmes and Director of International Projects, Serpentine Gallery and Amanda Sharp-Publishing Director, Frieze Magazine & co-Director, The Frieze Art Fair.

The Deste Prize of 10.000€, was presented to the artist by the Jury at a special event at the Foundation’s premises on the evening of 24th September 2007.The five other short listed artists were Nikos Arvanitis, Savvas Christodoulides, Socrates Fatouros, Yiannis Grigoriadis and Eleni Kamma.

The work of all six artists will be on display at the DESTE Foundation until November 3rd 2007.

According to the statement of the Deste Prize 2007 Jury Committee:

"This year was a particularly strong showing for the DESTE Prize. The Prize has been awarded to Loukia Alavanou whose video work displays a lightness of touch in its frank embrace of the strange, its mordant humor, and its witty mining of cinematic references.
Inspired by historical animation techniques, Loukia weaves narratives that transform a familiar Disney image into a surrealistic nightmare or fantasy. Visually rich, Loukia’s work displays a facility with her craft that we look forward to seeing develop."

Alavanou, (born in Athens in 1979) has had a number of solo shows, including
Haas & Fischer, Zurich (2007), Dead Real, upstairs berlin, Berlin (2006) and Cactus, The Breeder, Athens (2004). Group exhibitions include among others: Satelite Works, Centre de Production et de Diffusion en Art Actuel et Multidisciplinaire, Québec (2007), 100Tage = 100 Videos, Heidelberger Kunstverein, Heidelberg (2006), Videos And More, Vamiali’s Gallery, Athens (2006), This Ain’t No Karaoke, Haas & Fischer, Zurich, curated by M .Henry (2006), Peach, Gallery Eugen Lendl, Graz, curated by E. Martischnig (2006), What Remains Is Future, Arsakion, Patra, curated by N. Argyropoulou (2006).

The DESTE Prize was established in 1999 as part of the Foundation’s policy of supporting and promoting contemporary art in Greece and is awarded every two years to a Greek artist living and working either in Greece or abroad. Through this prize, Deste hopes to endorse the spirit of exploration, ingenuity and ambition so essential to the Foundation’s mission and to the vitality of contemporary art.

Previous DESTE Prize winners have been Panayota Tzamourani, (1999), Georgia Sagri, (2001), Maria Papadimitriou, (2003), Christodoulos Panayiotou (2005).

For more information go to: http://www.deste.gr